THE NEW YORKER Committee of the Kuomintang, acting on an explicit O.K. from the Generalis- simo, declared that they were not bind- ing and began unilaterally to revise them. I shall give just one example of the Central Executive Committee's in- roads upon the P.C.C. resolutions. The P.C.C. had laid down certain general principles for China's new constitution. One of these-considered most impor- tant by the ComlTIunists and the Demo- cratic League-was that the legislative oranch of the government should, like England's House of Commons, have the power to vote non-confidence in the executive branch and force it out of office. Although the Kuomintang representatives in the P .C.C. approved this principle, the Central Executive Committee later declared that it con- flicted with a constitution roughed out, oefore his death, by Sun Yat-sen, which rnade the executive Yuan free of any control by the legislative )7 uan, and he Kuomintang therefore withdrew its ap- proval of this principle. There were l11an} such backslides. One of the accomplishments of the P.C.C. was providing for an All-Party National Assembly, which was to con- vene on May 5th and draft the nev.- constitution. This, it was hoped, would be an important step in the development of China's new democracy. It was to be China"s constitutional conven- tion. The P .C.C. provided that there should be two thou and and fifty dele- gates to the assembl}. It also provided that the adverse vote of one-fourth of them could defeat any important pro- posal in the drafting of the new constI- tution. Therefore,' the apportIoning of delegates to the various parties was an extremely touchy matter; unless the minority parties could lTIUster a quarter of the total, the drafting of the constitu- tion would simply be a Kuomintang monopoly. After an enormous amount of juggling., the P .C.C. agreed that the Kuomintang should have two hundred ..... and twenty members; that the Youth Party, which is just a junior Kuomin- tang, should have a hundred; and that the People's Political Council, which was appointed by the Kuomin- tang in ] 936 to draft a constitution out somehow never got around to it, should send nine hundred and fifty delegates, of whom all but a handful-say, fifty- would be Kuomintang. The Commu- nists were assigned a hundred and ninety delegates and the Democratic League a hundred and twenty. There were to be seventy non-party delegates, who would probably be divided in sym- pathy about equally oetween the Kuo- ' ::-iJ., }o::': . ; ' J.,.., 93 OPENS MONDA MAY 6th BELMONT PARI( I I r " ... 8 RACES DAILY, INCLUDING STEEPLECHASE :: : 7Jm Doily through June 1 sf. A .. ' c L ' i !i ð O c ii; : ;l : [{ ' t,:<", , : . : .: . , ; , , : : : , , : , , ."' , 1;; ., _ H " ANDICAP Ma.y 11th. .: f."' : .;. .w' j : ;>. :.. :.. <TT- <;:. r'"'.' .x: > l.-Æ , 'flR ;ÅC\ ' \.60 Specia l Trains: Lv. P enna. Sla. N. Y. & Flat- ; GEN'L ADM d 9 ta){ g bush Ave., Bklyn.., from 11 : 15 direct to trock. . indo \\Î >>:-: .. ... _0" '::: _ :',:::: ::: :, . .", ..:;.' B 6 ð ð ô ð ð 6 6 .;'t.f>C20'øs;Z *;0 ÞW&S':Þ 'YP: :::J 4<;ø. À . ?& IA þt ; <E ':-:' ..' " á" 'X" ",( , 3 f C' ,l,;;/};9<"""m .. m '^ ,(Ò ... :; ; ;::: ' ft) '.. 3 g r;* . g (ò :' :! "..,<,'" :S:i ::;: Q) (ð. " ""'.. ê /)' '_ _ _^ ? . _. _, S0' C RUD. aV N :8 .,.,...:,:- :::::-:"::.:" -- - -- 'J" l ,'ß ;' .. ;tJ70:eVu ::1 : ;:;$' etc., ef,. \ I J' ^ j3 '<: $ g IMPORTERS AND WINE MERCHANTS ESTABLISHED 1830 7'JtlV YQrk . Colorado Springs. Cblcago ..; -, 4/5 Qnàrt · 86 Proof